A new collaboration between Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Design, and Carnegie Mellon University focuses on technologies for safe and efficient transportation. Read more about this new consortium here.

Jane Willenbring (professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania) led a team of scientists who recently published their work in the journal Geology showing mountains are not as significant a contributor to the "carbon draw down" effect as was previously thought. Read more here.

Shu Yang, associate professor in MSE and CBE in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn led a team of researchers who have found a new way to direct the assembly of liquid crystals by altering the geometry of the molecules on the bottommost layer and thereby producing changes in the patterns of defects on the topmost. These defects could be useful to nanomanufacturing.

As part of Penn's efforts to reach the goals set forth in Penn’s Climate Action Plan, the Green Campus Partnership created the Green Labs @ Penn Guide to provide overall guidelines for lab greening. Read more here.

Among American undergraduates, it is a time-honored academic divide: there are liberal-arts students and there are engineers-in-training, and never the twain shall meet—in the lab or lecture hall, at least.